UPDATE 3: BuzzFeed gave us a statement about their road to connectivity:

Our incredible team worked all night to bring our servers back to life; BuzzFeed is up and we expect it to remain up. We’re no longer operating off the compromised data center.

If Hurricane Sandy wasn’t scary enough, it’s newest victims are in the blogosphere. We’ve just learned that Gawker’s fleet of sites, including Gizmodo are down. Also Hurricane Sandy victims? The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed.

As you know, New Jersey and New York City is in the storm’s path, and any data centers that are stationed there are surely going to be affected. Big data warehouses usually have multiple failsafe systems in place, but it looks like they were no match for the fury that Hurricane Sandy brings.

We'll be back soon! There was a data center battery failure after the power went down in Lower Manhattan. Generators powering up. #sandy

The Huffington Post has been serving up important resources and links for those affected by the storms, and BuzzFeed has brought us a few laughs to keep us loose. It’s sad to see both sites down. Luckily, Twitter itself posted some great accounts to follow to get updates about the weather.

A BuzzFeed spokeswoman, Ashley McCollum, issued this statement to us:

We’re having hurricane related issues both with our servers and our CDN, and are working on it. The social web is alive and well and our staff will continue to create shareable content for Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.

As stated, the show must go on and BuzzFeed is keeping the LOLZ coming:

Pushing out stuff through Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr while we resolve our site issues, you guys! Follow and like us.